In pep1024/locatefile:

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)

library(locatefile)

MS-DOS

Find drive letters

wmic logicaldisk get name

fsutil fsinfo drives

DIR command help

DIR /?

Find a file

Find all power point files in a drive letter

DIR "*.pptx" /S

Find all files that contain test*.txt and show Modification time (W) and order by size /O:D (old files first)

DIR "test*.txt" /S /T:W /O:D

Old files last

DIR "test*.txt" /S /T:W /O:-D

Creation time is C and access time A.

Find file of a given month

DIR /S /T:W /O:D | FINDSTR 10/2022

Find file with word in name

DIR /S /T:W /O:D | FINDSTR name

With no case-sensitivity

DIR /S /T:W /O:D | FINDSTR /I name

To change the format and report only the file path

DIR /S /T:W /O:-D /B | FINDSTR /I name

LINUX

Find drive letters

In WSL

ls -l /mnt

Find a file

Find all power point files in a drive letter

cd /mnt/g; find . -name "*.pptx"

list long format

cd /mnt/g; find . -name "*.pptx" -ls

find all R files changes in the last 4 months

find . -name "*.R" ! -ctime +120

Find all R files accessed in the last 4 month but more than 3 months ago and list all files in the long format

find . -name "*.R" ! -atime +120 -atime +90 -exec ls -l {} +

pep1024/locatefile documentation built on Feb. 21, 2023, 7:07 a.m.